All Chapters of CLASS F’S MONSTER SON-IN-LAW: Chapter 21
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Chapter 21
The metallic shriek of the massive drill bit tearing through the ancient bedrock was deafening, vibrating the entire circular junction. Alex Vex and Lin Mei were trapped: behind them, a wall of Crystalline Green Mana pulsed, an impenetrable barrier created by the Headmaster. In front of them, the Legacy Unit Hound from the Depot was tunneling directly toward their position.“He sealed us in!” Lin Mei cried, pointing at the green wall. “The Headmaster knew we’d try to use the junction! He's using the energy to create a structural prison!”Alex’s kinetic arm throbbed, his internal calculations running at impossible speeds. He had to disable the drill, shatter the mana wall, and utilize the junction for escape—all without blowing up the entire Old City Sector.“The Hound’s drill is a pure kinetic mechanism,” Alex analyzed, glancing at the exposed human wiring on the control panel. “I can’t stop it with force. I have to use the only chaotic element here: the human power grid.”He returned
Chapter 22
The Headmaster, clad in the polished armor of an ancient Aethelian commander, stood calmly in the center of the Teleportation Array , his gaze fixed on Alex Vex. The Array’s blue energy pulsed, weaving into a visible, physical thread that slammed into Alex’s central nervous system.[Mandatory Command Protocol: OVERRIDE. Channel Full Kinetic Output. Stabilize Dimensional Bridge (Target: Dimension 7-Beta). Compliance: 0%. Internal Resistance: CRITICAL.]Alex Vex’s body locked up. His failsafe programming—the purpose for which Subject 001 was ultimately designed: to prevent the Core’s technology from falling into the wrong hands—waged a silent, brutal war against the mandatory command.The psychic command was a white-hot drill boring into his consciousness, demanding obedience, but Alex’s Core Link, fortified by the Archivist’s recent data injection, was fighting back.“Yield, Vex!” the Headmaster commanded, his voice strained as he wrestled with the immense kinetic resistance. “I am off
Chapter 23
The Repair Bay inside the retreating Herald was a chamber of bio-mechanical terror. The creature approaching them—the Herald’s Crew—was massive, six-limbed, and covered in chitinous plates that shimmered with residual kinetic energy. It was a fusion of organic life and Aethelian engineering, perfectly adapted to the ship's stabilizing gases.Clinging to the creature's back, now detached and stumbling, was Jia, Subject 002. Her armor was scorched, her movement erratic, but her focus on the Foundation Scroll was absolute.“Scroll! Yield!” Jia shrieked, ignoring the approaching monstrosity in favor of her rival. She raised her mangled right arm, attempting to initiate a kinetic blast, but her internal power supply sputtered, releasing only a weak spray of sparks.The Herald’s Crew member paused, its single, compound eye fixing on the three intruders. It perceived Alex Vex and Jia as high-energy, hostile entities.Alex Vex, now fully alert, pulled Lin Mei behind a stack of inert stasis po
Chapter 24
The external monitor in the Core Logic Hub showed the sickening truth: three magnetically shielded Commonwealth Dropships, adapted with crude Aethelian dampening technology, were fused to the breach points of the Herald’s hull. They had followed the residual kinetic trail, hunting their prey across the dimensional divide.The Headmaster’s armored figure, radiating the immense, refined power of the True Command's temporary power source, detached from the command deck of the lead dropship. He phased directly through the breached hull, landing silently in the Hub, surrounded by his own loyal Legacy Guards—four elite, heavily armed Legacy Units that had been hidden aboard the Commonwealth transport.“The Archive must be secured,” the Headmaster declared, his voice a cold, measured baritone, resonating with the final authority of the old Empire. “Your resistance is futile, Subject 001. You are interfering with Protocol 7: Knowledge Preservation.”Alex Vex shoved Lin Mei behind a pulsing ba
Chapter 25
The sight was absolute. The Guardian Class Aethelian Warship, so massive that it dwarfed the wounded Herald, filled the viewport and bore down with crushing inevitability. Its hull was a mile-long carapace made of weaponized, black chitin that was covered in silent, menacing kinetic weapons. The ship served as a quiet testament to the Ascended Empire's actual might.Lin Mei stared in paralyzing horror. The Scroll, pressed against her chest, pulsed weakly, confirming the existential threat.[External Status: Guardian Class (The Aethelon). Status: Fully Active. Mission: Archive Retrieval and System Synchronization.]“He didn’t abandon us,” Lin Mei whispered, dragging Alex Vex’s inert body further into the shadow of a melting data conduit. “The Headmaster sacrificed the Herald to lure us into the final ambush. He used us as bait to bring the Scroll here.”Alex was in forced systemic shutdown, his kinetic power reserves virtually zero after decimating the Dimensional Drive. He was a perfe
Chapter 26
The crippled Herald was now a metallic tether, pulled inexorably through the void toward the Aethelian Star-Forge—a machine of impossible scale, its superstructure a dark lattice against the swirling, incandescent nebula of raw, harnessed stellar energy.Lin Mei held Alex Vex, whose body was cold, inert, and depleted of kinetic power. The residual heat from the Herald’s decaying life support was the only thing keeping him from freezing.“Alex, the Core Link… it drained everything,” Lin Mei whispered, her voice cracking. “Your core is silent.”She looked out the viewport at the structure that dwarfed their ship. The Forge was not merely a facility; it was the ultimate kinetic engine—a cosmic battery drawing power directly from a manufactured stellar core.The Herald slammed into a massive docking pylon on the Forge’s surface. The impact was cushioned by a subtle kinetic field, securing the ship instantly.Lin Mei realized they hadn't been defeated by the Headmaster; they had been deliv
Chapter 27
The narrow maintenance shaft became their transport into the ultimate Aethelian stronghold. Below, the four elite Legacy Guards aimed their rifles. The Headmaster stood in the middle, wearing polished armor, his posture exuding total authority and coldness.The Headmaster's voice reverberated in the vast room below, "The Archive must be delivered to its final resting place." He didn’t wait for them to climb down; he exerted a precise kinetic field and pulled the metallic maintenance platform on which Lin Mei and Alex lay, forcing them into a rapid, uncontrolled descent.They slammed hard onto the floor of the Core Battery Chamber . The room was immense, silent, and humming with deep power. Thousands of colossal, cylindrical capsules—each easily ten meters tall—stretched into the darkness, containing enough volatile kinetic energy to power a small sun.Lin Mei immediately dragged Alex behind the nearest battery casing, the Foundation Scroll now warm and vibrating in her hand.The Headm
Chapter 28
The moment the Foundation Scroll and the True Command fused into the massive, crystalline Archive Brain, the spherical chamber was annihilated by light. It wasn't kinetic energy that exploded, but raw, structured Aethelian Data. The energy flared outward, a silent, incandescent wave of codified information designed to rewrite reality.Lin Mei threw herself over Alex Vex, shielding his inert body with her own. Alex, utterly depleted, could only maintain a microscopic kinetic dampener around his vitals—a last-ditch, purely instinctive survival reflex.As the data wave swept through them, an overpowering, fleeting blast of total Aethelian Order seared their thoughts instead of causing them agony. The crystalline walls glowed furiously, and the room remained intact as the light faded. The Headmaster and the four Legacy Guards stood perfectly still, their armored bodies radiating the stabilized power of the successful initiation.“The first stage is complete,” the First Ascended announced,
Chapter 29
The crystalline point of the Master Key—the terrifying fusion of the Foundation Scroll and the True Command—hovered millimeters from Alex Vex’s inert chest. The First Ascended, a being of luminous, ordered energy, had bypassed Lin Mei with ease, securing its final conduit.“The cosmic destiny of the Archive cannot be denied by cellular life,” the First Ascended decreed. “Yield your core, Subject 001. Become the vessel.”The Headmaster and the four Legacy Guards stood as silent, unmoving witnesses, waiting for the final act of the Aethelian Empire.Lin Mei, recovering from the temporal shockwave and the entity's phasing, saw her last chance. She was powerless against kinetic energy, temporal fields, and pure light, but she had one thing they needed: herself.With a primal scream of defiance, Lin Mei launched her body at the luminous hand holding the Master Key. She didn't attack; she simply made contact, using the crude, chaotic magnetism of her organic form to interrupt the perfect ki
Chapter 30
The black, pyramidal vessel materialized from the absolute void, its surface absorbing all light and kinetic energy. It was a perfect anti-structure, operating under principles entirely alien to the Aethelian System. It hovered inches from the crippled figures of Alex Vex and Lin Mei.The synthesized voice, resonating directly in Lin Mei’s mind, was emotionless and terrifying: "Unauthorized Aethelian Artifacts Detected. Acquisition Protocol Initiated. Submit to the Universal Law of Entropy."Despite feeling suffocated in the vacuum, Lin Mei had an adrenaline rush. She gripped Alex, who was now encased in the implanted, glowing pieces of the shattered Archive Brain.The ship didn't deploy a grappling hook or a tractor beam. Instead, the open hatch exuded a localized, contained atmosphere—a shimmering pocket of breathable air that instantly enveloped Lin Mei and Alex. The pressure differential gently pulled them into the dark aperture.They were deposited onto a floor that felt like pol